Bernie Sanders Just Revealed His Last California Ad.

[elleng]

Last edited Thu Jun 2, 2016, 09:20 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.mangofeed.com/bernie-sanders-new-cali-ad/

Glad everyone likes it.

Chris is in Baltimore!

[TeeYiYi]

1. Wow...

Powerful.

TYY

[djean111]

2. That is a beautiful ad. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Yep, only one candidate has called the drug war a "failure"

The other one is still allied with the people sending pot smokers to prison.

[winter is coming]

4. And some probably thought of him as a superpredator. n/t

[zappaman]

5. Good ad!

[Luminous Animal]

6. Well, that made me cry. I hope for a great future for Chris.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. That is some powerful film making as well.

That is a mini doc, and this is not a standard political add.

[senz]

8. Thank you, ellen. This is what Bernie is all about.

Bernie cares about people like Chris. This is why he went into government service.

It is why he's running for president.

[KeepItReal]

9. Beautiful.

[YouDig]

10. That is a great ad.

[Alex4Martinez]

11. Oh, shit.

Oh, please, let this man become our next president.
He transcends the banal, the mundane, the corrupt politics we've come to accept as "OK".

[antigop]

12. Thank you, elleng. Thank you. nt

[JudyM]

13. Powerful story. Letting Chris tell his story at his own pace says a lot about Bernie's focus. It's

a metaphor for how real these issues are to him and that he takes time to listen, and has, over the years. He's not more focused on serving corporate masters and how much can we market in a sound bite. That's his whole thing. He won't serve corporate masters. He's paying big money by the second to air this, and he is saying underneath: people's lives, people's suffering in our system is far far more important than the money.

I'm ferklempt, as my dad would say... Choked up with the emotional beauty of this powerful statement of an ad, which is about far more than, but represented beautifully by, Chris' story.

Thank you, Bernie. For showing how deeply you care. For modeling a leadership ethic that echoes in the heart as a resonance of our deeper humanity. For being more than a storefront-depth politician.

And anyone who wants to poke at this because I'm expressing my genuine emotion, well, you're just showing your cold, bloodless heart.

[lostnfound]

22. Amen.

Last comment especially.

People sometimes claim to be the "adults in the room" when they shut off their emotions. Real adults think with both their hearts and minds.

Sixty eight people were shot in my city, Chicago, over Memorial Day weekend. Four or five of them died. I wonder why we "adults" in this city can't seem to change the ugly reality for the violent neighborhoods where most of it occurs. We "adults" report to our jobs to earn a small living for ourselves and a much better living for our "owners", do virtually nothing (and are asked to do virtually nothing) to address our city's most desparate sad problems, and are made to feel that these problems are beyond repair by a political system to which we are mere bystanders or manipulated props.

How to reconnect our hearts to our minds, within our economy and our government, is the challenge before us.

[Skwmom]

14. Awesome ad and money well spent.

[lmbradford]

15. That man is beautiful...

Such an amazing man. He inspired me and I already have a Master's Degree.

WOW JUST WOW!!!

[morningfog]

16. Loved it.

[2banon]

17. Absolutely Beautiful... thank you!

[itsrobert]

18. Did he only release it on the internet?

I'm not seeing it on the air in San Diego County. Did he not have the money to run it on TV?

[elleng]

19. I don't know.

[Lizzie Poppet]

20. Enthusiastic K&R.

[pablo_marmol]

21. *Very* heavy.

Thank you, elleng

[madokie]

23. I'm n tears

It sucks that so many in our black communities have been the scape goat for whatever ails us for so fucking long. Its time we stop this cycle of disparity and give these kids, men and women a real chance at the American Dream that many of us have taken for granted in our worlds.

We have to elect Bernie as our next President or things will continue to get worse. Its not just me typing these words these are words typing themselves though my fingers. dm